Anyone feeling old?

[Cergorach]

Anyone feeling old?

Not until you mentioned it a day after my birthday!

I feel old when I see people dying of old age I remember seeing young. Harrison Ford needing a rollator after falling out of the MF on the new-new Star Wars film set isn't helping either. Baby/kid actors from movies/tv series you grew up with as full on adults...

Remembering that getting a 5.25" floppydrive was so cutting edge. The Walkman was hip. Had to bash the TV/Monitor on the side to align it properly. Having to type stuff by hand on a typewriter until there where commercially available printers for PCs.

Remembering that we would wait with playing AD&D because AD&D 2E was announced (and continued to play ODM/D&D red/blue box).

 

[Scott DeWar]

I remember High school typing class was on those old black manuals using correction tape. We only had one electric typwriter and we liked it. or else.
I remember accounting was on actual paper using these things called pencils. I remember the TI-30 used red LED and was

THE
cutting edge.
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[Hussar]

Anyone else get handouts or tests that were mimeographed?

Oh man thank you. I couldn't for the life of me remember that word, mimeograph, the other day.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Do you remember the smell of the fluid? or if you screw up typing you have to start all over?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I have no choice but to remember the smell of mimeo fluid- all 4 of my grandparents were teachers and so was my mom, and used them. My paternal grandmother actually had a machine at her house.

 

[Hussar]

Do you remember the smell of the fluid? or if you screw up typing you have to start all over?

Erm, well, I never actually used one but my teachers did. So I do remember the smell...

Suddenly I feel a bit younger.

 

[pickin_grinnin]

Old is remembering standing by the TV to click through the three or four channels until you found something to watch, then having to stand there throughout the show with the antenna in your hand to get good enough reception to watch it.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Rabbit ears & foil, baby!

 

[Hussar]

Heh. We were swanky. We had a motorised antenna tower with a dial inside. You turned the dial and the top of the tower would spin in whichever direction you turned the dial.

 

[pickin_grinnin]

Rabbit ears & foil, baby!

I had a coat hanger stuck down inside a broken hollow antenna at one point.